1 Corinthians 4:16
14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Therefore I urge you to imitate me.
- KJV
- Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
- WEB
- I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.
- ASV
- I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.
- DARBY
- I entreat you therefore, be my imitators.
- BLB
- Therefore I exhort you⁺, become imitators of me.
- ÅB
- Jeg formaner dere derfor: Bli mine etterfølgere!
- OTB
- Derfor oppmuntrer jeg dere, vær etterlignere av meg.
- B1930
- Jeg formaner eder derfor: Bli mine efterfølgere!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 11:1
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Read in contextPhilippians 3:17
Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 3:9
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 1:6
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
Read in contextHebrews 13:7
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Read in contextPhilippians 4:9
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Read in contextJohn 10:4–5
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
Read in context1 Peter 5:3
Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
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